Don’t hate him, he’s one of my favorite authors. He was approached to finish WoT because he was a good fit. He is not a good fit for ASoIaF

Sanderson is a bad pick and has said himself that he can’t do grimdark. Just because he’s prolific doesn’t mean he should be the de facto pick to finish series.

I’ll take that bet. All of their expansions have been paid DLCs. Would be odd if the last one wasn’t.

Dyscalculia is the word you’re looking for

So many levels!

The levels:

All genders are accepted by the BSA nowadays. But yes

No, it’s a Dunkleosteus.

Coelacanth looks like this:

… dude, you’re a reptile. Salamanders are amphibians

https://youtube.com/shorts/tyKdYAWxhIk

It’s weird seeing his name written out. I still stumble with not calling him David Wong.

They’ve changed their name since. Now they’re the Chicago Cubs

Alright. Doesn’t change my main point. Which is the person’s name for the master branch is fucking weird.

Not gonna lie, the master branch thing has been perceived as problematic but I don’t typically see an issue with it. It’s similar to master bedroom or bath. Kind of fucked up name origin, but I don’t think anyone’s really making a fuss about it.

Whatever the fuck you’re doing though feels like some gross, racist fantasy. It’s really weird, dude. If you think that’s funny you might need to go talk to some real people or touch grass.

Literally being used in the absurdist manner also dates back to the 1800s

Literally was being used as an intensifier in both cases where it was being used to signify the truth of something and in the absurdist manner. So, no, it didn’t lose all meaning. So long as you’re not emphasizing something too absurd to be considered real, the original meaning still holds. And if someone uses the word to emphasize something that could be real, though unlikely, they’ll likely get the appropriate follow-up.

On the Crescendo one, do you also get mad about forte? Cause basically the same thing happened there. And no one will confuse the music term for the colloquial term in either case.

Oligopolies, monopolies. Potato tomato, potato tomato

Hydrocarbons. Lots of hydrogen all tied up in our shit.

This